Thursday

Seen a RedBox machine out in front of your local grocery or drug store? This unique free-standing movie rental kiosk is a do-it-yourself movie rental for $1. Or, for those with secret codes, it can sometimes be FREE. To use a code you will need to select “Rent with Promo Code,” enter code, select movie and continue to check out.

Here a new way to get some discount codes to use on the machine to get discounted rentals, and maybe win a prize too. It's the 12 Days of Deals. Details here. Here's how RedBox works in case you are not familiar. These come on your phone in a text message, so don't do this unless you have free text messaging!

To get your codes, between now and 12/24, Redbox is offering daily discounts on DVD rentals. Text FUN to 727272 each day for a new discount code, which will be anywhere from $0.10 to $1.00.

Find your nearest RedBox here. There are 12,000 kiosks nationwide. You can also follow the blog Inside RedBoxhere, to learn about the newest codes being released. (Usually they release a unique one to you on the first Monday of the month when you subscribe to get their text messages here.)